CULEX — FEET UNBANDED ; ABD. STRIPED AND BANDED 481 



Habitat. — Described from a single ? specimen taken in my bungalow 

 at Shahjahanpur, N.W.P., India, October 20th, 1900. 



75. CULEX MEDIOLINEATUS, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 113). 



Tarsi uniformly brown. Thorax rich golden -brown, with two 

 paler longitudinal parallel lines, placed wide apart. Abdomen 

 brown, with a broad median ochreous line, ochreous lateral basal 

 spots, and traces of apical pale bands ; venter ochreous. Fore 

 and mid ungues of the $ , equal, uniserrated ; hind equal and 

 simple. Fork-cells short. 



5 .■ — Head covered with narrow, hair-like curved golden scales in the 

 middle, and numerous thin ochreous and deep brown upright forked- 

 scales, sides clothed with small, fiat, ochreous scales, and golden 

 bristles projecting forwards over the coppery eyes; antennse brown, 

 jomts rather thick, basal joint testaceous ; palpi bronzy-brown ; pro 

 boscis rich dark ochreous, with jet-black apex. Pleurte chestnut-, 

 brown. Legs brown, with a bronzy-ochreous tinge, unhanded ; femora 

 pale at the base. Halteres yellow. Venter with ochreous scales along 

 the sides, and pale hairs on the hind borders of the segments. Length. — ■ 

 4'5 mm. 



Habitat. — Thayetmj'o, Upper Burmah. 



76. CULEX SPENCERII, Theobald (Monog. II, p. 99). 



Tarsi uniformly dark. Thorax black, with narrow, golden- 

 curved scales in the middle ; the sides, with broader, creamy, 

 coloured ones, and two short, parallel, paler lines behind, besides 

 other pale scales in front of the scutellum. Abdomen covered 

 witli creamy and white scales, with large, black-scaled lateral 

 patches on the middle of each segment, so as to leave a median 

 white stripe, combined with basal and apical banding. Tarsal 

 claws of 2 , symmetrical, each with an extra tooth. 



$ . — Head brown, with pale golden curved, and yellowish, upright 

 forked scales, a pale border round the eyes ; small, flat, creamj- scales at 

 the sides, and then flat dark ones ; antennae black, basal joint with 

 a large tuft of pale scales on the inside ; second joint testaceous at the 

 base ; palpi densely black-scaled, sometimes grey towards the tip. 

 Pleurte dark brown, densely white-scaled. Legs brown, with pale scales 

 scattered about on the tibite and metatarsi ; femora mostly pale ochreous, 

 with a few black scales. Halteres yellow with the knob darker. Venter 

 white. Le7ifjth.— 4vajyi. 



Habitat. — Manitoba, Canada. 



